Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of cl

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. – Albert Camus

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The person who lives by hope will die by despair. – Italian Proverb

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Make sense who may. I switch off. – Samuel Beckett

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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. – Antonin Artaud

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